identification — UK US /aɪˌdentɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun ► [U] an official card or document with your name and photograph or other information on it, used for proving who you are: provide/show identification »To open a new account, the bank will require you to show four… … Financial and business terms

identification — (n.) 1640s, treating of a thing as the same as another, from Fr. identification, probably from identifier (see IDENTIFY (Cf. identify)). Sense of becoming or feeling oneself one with another is from 1857. Sense of determination of identity is… … Etymology dictionary

Identification — I*den ti*fi*ca tion, n. [Cf. F. identification.] The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

identification — [ī den΄tə fi kā′shən] n. [Fr] 1. an identifying or being identified 2. anything by which a person or thing can be identified [a driver s license is accepted as identification] 3. Psychoanalysis a mainly unconscious process by which a person… … English World dictionary